G/TBT/N/ISR/1263  
24 June 2022  
(22-4913) Page: 1/2 
Committee on Technical Barriers to Trade  Original:  English  
 
  
NOTIFICATION  
The following notification is being circulated in accordance with Article 10.6  
 
1. Notifying Member:  ISRAEL  
If applicable, name of local government involved (Article 3.2 and 7.2):   
2. Agency responsible:   
Israel WTO-TBT Enquiry Point  
Name and address (including telephone and fax numbers , email and website 
addresses, if available) of agency or authority designated to handle comments 
regarding the notification shall be indicated if different from above:   
Israel WTO -TBT Enquiry Point  
Ministry of Economy and Industry  
Tel: + (972) 3 7347501  
E-mail: Yael.Friedgut@economy.gov.il  
3. Notified under Article 2.9.2 [  ], 2.10.1 [  ], 5.6.2 [X], 5.7.1 [  ], 3.2 [  ], 7.2 [  ], 
other :  
4. Products covered (HS or CCCN where applicable, otherwise national tariff 
heading. ICS numbers may be provided in addition, where applicable):  
Commodities subject to Mandatory Standards  
5. Title, number of pages and language(s) of the notified document:   
• Standards Decree (Replacement of the third Annex to the Standards Law) 5782 -
2022;  
• Director Order to the list of Mandatory Standards applicable to commodities under 
the Standards Law.  
(80 page(s), in Hebrew)  
6. Description of content:  Following the new import regime notified in G/TBT/N/ISR/1216 
and G/TBT/N/ISR/1219 on 26 August 202 1, the standards law and related legislation were 
amended by the following:  
• Standards Decree (Replacement of the third Annex to the Standards Law) 5782 -
2022;  
• Director Order to the list of Mandatory Standards applicable to commodities under 
the Standards Law.  
The new import regime allows the import of commodities complying with 
International/Foreign Standards, which were adopted as Israeli standards, to be based  
on an importer's declaration of conformity. According to the reform, the importer may 
choose to either issue a DoC to the applicable Israeli Mandatory Standards or to issue a 
DoC to relevant international/foreign standards, with an attachment of documents  
proving compliance with those standards. For additional information relating to the reform G/TBT/N/ISR/1263  
 
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  please see: https://www.gov.il/he/departments/topics/stand ardization -import -
reform/govil -landing -page 
The Standards Decree (Replacement of the third Annex to the Standards Law) 5782 -2022 
details the list of all Israel Mandatory Standards that are not approved for import 
according to compliance with International/ Foreign Standards, whether in full or with 
special conditions applied to some of the products under each standard's scope (i.e. the 
'Negative List').  
The Director Order to the list of Mandatory Standards applicable to commodities under 
the Standards Law in cludes the list of all Israel Mandatory Standards that are approved 
for import according to compliance with International/Foreign Standards (i.e. the 'Positive 
List').  
7. Objective and rationale, including the nature of urgent problems where 
applicable:  Harmonization; Reducing trade barriers and facilitating trade  
8. Relevant documents:   
Standards Law, 5713 -1954 and all its amendments.  
9. Proposed date of adoption:  1 June 2022  
Proposed date of entry into force:  1 June 2022  
10. Final date for comments:  60 days from notification  
11. Texts available from:  National enquiry point [ ] or address, telephone and fax 
numbers and email and website addresses, if available , of other body:   
https://members.wto.org/crnattachments/2022/TBT/ISR/22_4292_00_x.pdf  
https://members.wto.org/crnattachments/2022/TBT/ISR/22_4292_01_x.pdf